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This dark double act mark 30 years of gruesome comedy: PATRICK MARMION reviews Inside No.9 on the stage


Fifty-something TV comedians Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are celebrating their pearl anniversary by redeploying the format of their BBC 'anthology' series, Inside No. 9.

Set in and around the Wyndham's Theatre itself, they start with a brilliant sketch featuring audience members running a gamut of cardinal sins from eating, chatting and answering phones, to Skyping on laptops. West Side Story revamped Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet courtesy of Bernstein and Sondheim; Cole Porter made the Bard's cold, hateful The Taming Of The Shrew hot to trot as Kiss Me, Kate. West Side Story revamped Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet; Cole Porter made the Bard's cold, hateful The Taming Of The Shrew hot to trot as Kiss Me, Kate - but Play On!

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